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H. W. GILBERT.

BUTTON STRIP.

Patented Aug. 12, 1890.

INVENTUH flenyWGzlZerV ATT'Y UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY W. GILBERT, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO HENRY W. LYON, OF SAME PLACE.

BUTTON-STRIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 434,387, dated August 12, 1890.

Application filed December 9, 1889. Serial No. 333,080. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY W. GILBERT, a citizen of the United States,residiug at Bridgeport, intho county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Button-Strips; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such-as will enable others skilled in the art to To which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has reference tobutton-strips; and it consists in the several details of construction, such as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and then specifically designated by the I 5 claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan illustrating my preferred mode of making the strips; Fig. 2, a detail plan of one of the strips, and Fig. 3 a central longitudinal section of the strip shown at Fig. 2.

Similar letters denote like parts in the several figures of the drawings.

I first place a series of continuous tapes A in parallelism upon a single base B, the buttons C having been previously strung upon said tapes at suitable intervals. I then place upon the tapes transversely thereof strips D,

whose edges extend in close proximity on opposite sides of the loop of the tape which carries the buttons, and I stitch these strips along their edges through the tapes to the base B, all asshown at Fig. l. I finally cut this completed series of strips midway between the tapes and parallel thereto, as at the lines :1; m of Fig. 1, and thereby obtain separate strips of the pattern shown at Fig. 2.

I am aware that button-strips have been made by securing a continuous button-carrying tape to a bottom strip by superimposed strips extending longitudinal of the tape and o stitched thereto, and I do notwish to be understood as claiming any such construction.

What I do claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A button-strip consisting of a base-strip, a continuous tape extending longitudinally of said strip and carrying the buttons at slut-- able intervals, and separate strips superimposed transversely upon said tape and ex? tending immediately beneath the buttons, said strips being stitched'at their transverse edges through the tape to the base-strip, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY W. GILBERT. 

